Now, I'm not going to sit here and recommend what each of these organizations should have done in the interest of avoiding disaster. After all, some of these marketing tonics were concocted by some of the greatest marketing and advertising chemists of our time. But alas, all great quarterbacks eventually throw a game-losing interception to the competition, and sometimes failure can be just as entertaining as success.

So, while this website is filled with tales from the marketing greats, I hope you'll enjoy these tales from the marketing crypt. Enjoy!

Don't compete — DOMINATE.

Matt Steffen

This Month's Marketing Flop

Todd Davis, CEO of LieLock, had an inspiring marketing idea that would prove just how effective his company was at protecting people from identify theft. The plan was simple: Expose his actual Social Security number on the...